Books

Jungle Chants: A Journey of Life from the Origins throughout the Ages to Eternity

This beautiful lyrical poem takes one on a vivid journey through earthly cycles of survival and symbiosis between man, nature, plant, and animal species in “jungles.” Extreme climate change and cataclysmic events occur, resulting in the development of underwater cities for survival. Ultimately, a new “mankind” attempts to survive as nescient luminous spheres, when a new world order and species in jungles regenerate.

Poetica Rigeneratrice MMDCCL IV a.u.c: Raccolta di Poesie (Italian Edition)

This book, entitled Regenerating Poetics MMDCCL IV a.u.c: Collection of Poems, by the Italian poet, screenwriter and librettist Otelio Tortella d’Elea, alias Ode Roman, born in Colledara in the province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region, *1-3- 1934 † 9-15-2022, includes a large collection of poems originally written in his native language. The poems in this collection cover a spectrum of many years of poetic creation, as well as diverse life themes such as love, loss and decay over time, poems about friendship, nature, inspirational poems and spiritual poems. All poems are distinguished by their strong content, effective and accurate language, expressed with energy, imagination, brilliance, musicality, rhythm and meter.

The reader reading this collection realizes from the first pages that the poet handles all poetic techniques with great skill and enjoys his fluent speech and his inspiration of high importance. The book contains the volumes Riflessi Opachi, Respiri Nocturni, Fuoco Latente, Spente Viville, Riflessi Verdi, Odette Sapphiche and Poetica Regeneratatrice.

New Moorish Ballads: Poetic Revival of the Moors’ Civilization

Echoing through the corridors of time, New Moorish Ballads resurrects the lost voices of Al-Andalus, weaving a lyrical tapestry of love, honor, exile, and resilience. Inspired by the poetic traditions of the Moors and infused with the grandeur of Andalusian culture, these verses evoke the rhythm of desert winds, the splendor of the Alhambra, and the haunting melodies of a bygone era.
Ode Roman, a masterful poet and storyteller, bridges East and West, past and present, with ballads that stir the soul and illuminate a forgotten civilization’s poetic legacy. From heroic warriors and wise scholars to passionate lovers and unsung heroines, the verses pulse with the timeless emotions that shaped a golden age of art, intellect, and spirituality.
A celebration of Moorish heritage and an ode to the power of poetry, New Moorish Ballads invites readers on a mesmerizing journey through history, where the echoes of Al-Andalus still whisper through the pages.

Lu Sugne De Leda (Italian Edition)

Conceived and created in the Abruzzo vernacular to enhance the beauty of the Region, the character of its people, the thousand-year-old treasures of its culture, traditions, myths and legends.
To praise the products of the land, cultivated with love, the craftsmanship and the arts, the people who loved and immortalized it.

Georgiche d’ Abruzzo (Italian Edition)

These Abruzzo georgies were reversed between the 1946/1950 seasons, as an incentive for Italian farmers to divert them from emigrating to foreign mines.
For half a century I have carried them with me around the globe: now I offer them to the young ecologists of my native homeland to encourage them to renew their love, respect and religion for our land from which the essence of the spirit of man since the beginning of time.
The English poet and critic Matthew Arnold reveals to us:
“For Poetry the idea is the totality of everything;
the rest is a world of illusion, of a divine illusion.
Poetry imprints its emotions on the Idea;
the idea is the fact! The strongest part of contemporary denominations is their Unconscious Poetry.”

An American critic clearly interpreted this axiom, confirming:
“ONLY POETRY CAN SAVE US”.

Elegy on Glen Canyon

A poignant lamentation for the destruction we have wrought and a call to attention.

In 1963, Glen Canyon dam was constructed over Navajo, Hopi, Paiute, Ute and Pueblo ancestral lands. Its construction wrought immense destructive changes to the ecosystem and to the many species living there. Situated within the conversation between a tourist to the United States and a Diné elder who each visit the dam over many years, Elegy on Glen Canyon draws the reader into a profound lamentation. This powerful little book of verse speaks to the ways an expansionist, capitalist approach have violently defaced indigenous cultures and the complex ecosystems they inhabit. It also offers spaces to reclaim lost phrases, obsolete words and forms of attention. The rhythmic repetitions that name the dead and the sanctity of the living deserve to be read out loud.

Bucolic preludes

“Bucolic Preludes” is a milestone in the Ecologic Revival of Erotokritos and Virgil, exalting the Fauna-Flora of Catalonia’s still green land with 2880 Rhymed Verses.

Come out to breathe pure air over meadows,
Barefoot to run and roll over soft grass,
Allowing freedom to your younger lass
To win the race in chasing gold rainbows.

Kushiro Marshland, Alive!: 123 Haiku & 50 Tanka Poems

Discover the enchanting beauty of Kushiro Marshland through the poetic brilliance of Ode Román. This exquisite collection of 123 haiku and 50 tanka poems celebrates the vibrant life of nature—fauna, flora, and Gaia’s whispers—captured with lyrical mastery. Each verse paints vivid scenes of the marsh’s dynamic rhythms, from dragonfly dances to serene snow-laden reeds. Román’s artistry transcends observation, weaving universal themes of life, balance, and spiritual connection. A bridge between Eastern and Western aesthetics, Kushiro Marshland, Alive! is a poetic tribute to Japan’s natural world and a timeless exploration of humanity’s bond with nature. Perfect for lovers of poetry, Japanese culture, and the eternal song of the wild.

Bardusa in Venezia: A Mini Veneziade by Ode Roman

A rhapsodic creation of rhymed verses celebrating the history of Venice.
A joyous entertaining of themes of collisions and fusions of love,art and historical memory.
You will be filled with longing for all the company of being in the world so richly described in the text.
He focuses on the minute slices of everyday situations, then relates them to gigantic fundamental
principles of life.
You will be touched by the Epilogue and the writer’s personal address to the reader.

The Death of the Butterfly: A Tragic Poem

A tragic poem that narrates the death of the butterfly in the era mythology of our planet
Myriads of bees pollinate and create honey and struggle to defend it from swarms of insects
The butterfly, drunk with the aroma of honey, falls, shattering in the flowing; gluey whirlpool from the honeycomb.
Transforming into sweetness and nourishing life.

Special Bilingual Edition, including The Death of the Butterfly, a tragic poem (Italian Edition).

Tisbe: Tragedia Esoterica in Tre Atti (Italian Edition)

The subject of the tragedy is the Ovidian one, from which the famous novella originated: that of Juliet and Romeo which, by the Novellino [1475] by Masuccio Salernitano, was reworked in 1500 by Luigi da Porto and Matteo Bandello; and then emigrated to England, where Shakespeare wrote the immortal tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”; while he inserted the episode of Pyramus and Thisbe into A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I interpreted this subject, immortalized by the great Shakespeare, esoterically and focused on establishing the origin and then the effect of human actions. Making the words of the great Alfieri my own, I ask the public to welcome Thisbe, like a ray, which illuminates the human soul and exalts its spiritual values.